Saeed al-Masri

Saeed al-Masri (17 December 1955-21 May 2010), born Mustafa Ahmed Mohammed Uthman Abu al-Yazid, was the Financial Chief of Al-Qaeda.

Biography
Mustafa Ahmed Mohammed Uthman Abu al-Yazid was born in Egypt on 17 December 1955 and joined the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and was arrested after the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. He was imprisoned for three years, and in 1988 he headed to join the Soviet-Afghan War in the Mujahideen resistance to the Soviet Union. He married the daughter of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, "the Blind Sheikh", making a connection to Al-Qaeda.

As of 1991, he became the Financial Chief of Al-Qaeda, and ran the accounting office in Peshawar, Pakistan. In 1993 he set up an office in McNimr Street in Khartoum, Sudan, from where he managed the payroll of Al-Qaeda. He was involved in many Al-Qaeda attacks as well, and in December 2007 he claimed responsibility for the assassination of Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto.

Death
Having killed an important Pakistani politician, he became a target for the United States and Pakistan. In 2010 he was killed in a drone strike in Boya in North Waziristan with his wife, three daughters, and a granddaughter.